#euro

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#building #cannot #cinema #european #fence

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#doing #european #had #i #lobbying

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#audience #certain #countries #english #european

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#also #america #become #being #consumerism

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#american #because #bored #defining #division

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#change #consternation #democracy #dominated #europe

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#entire #europe #fourth #half #inhabitants

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#copied #country #europe #japanese #japanese architecture

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance. ↗

— Montel Williams

#be careful #because #careful #comparing #european

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#border #both #committed #course #eastern